Negative Zero

2002-12-16 Thread Michael Joyce
I've just subscribed to the mailing lists, and I'm very excited to be a part of this. I started reading the documentation and I've been reading through the tests. It's making a lot of sense, which is a good thing. My question is, has there been a decision for negative zero? Zero shouldn't be ne

Re: [perl #19163] configure probe for va_list*

2002-12-16 Thread Josh Wilmes
It would be nice if we could reach a solution that will work for the miniparrot (no configure, ansi C89 only) case. --Josh At 19:17 on 12/16/2002 EST, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:33 AM -0500 12/16/02, Andy Dougherty wrote: > >On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Steve Fink wrote: > > > >>

RE: [perl #19187] t/src/sprintf errors with 64-bit ints:

2002-12-16 Thread Brent Dax
Andy Dougherty: # On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using 64-bit long # longs as INTVAL, I get the following test failure in # t/src/sprintf. It looks like something is getting passed a # 64-bit integer quantity but only taking the first 32-bits # (i.e. an int or long) to do the prin

Re: [perl #19163] configure probe for va_list*

2002-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:33 AM -0500 12/16/02, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Steve Fink wrote: I'm a little confused by the va_list* stuff for sprintf*. At one point, people were saying that ppc does va_list differently, though I'm guessing that was a different compiler than gcc. Now, it seems like

Re: [perl #19179] [PATCH] creating string_max_bytes()

2002-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:50 PM + 12/16/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:07:36PM +, mcharity @ vendian. org wrote: This question is actually independent of the patch (which looks good) simply returns the C it is passed; C, on the other hand, returns three times the value that i

Re: Curses Life

2002-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:12 AM + 12/16/02, Piers Cawley wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At 4:45 PM + 12/5/02, Leon Brocard wrote: Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: Now to get the hand of the signatures... Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated

Minimum requirements reminder

2002-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
Folks, Just a reminder--our minimum requirements for build, at the moment, is an ANSI89 compliant C compiler (Hosted version, I think--whatever has a full set of headers) and perl 5.005_03. At some point we may raise the perl minimum to 5.6.0, but not right yet. That does mean some of the new

Re: [perl #19189] t/pmc/perlhash fails with gcc-2.95.4 or gcc-2.8.1 on SPARC

2002-12-16 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty > # Please include the string: [perl #19189] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19189 > > > > On a Debian/SPARC system with gc

Re: Scratchpad/lexicals test failures on TD-Camry

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Glover
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Simon Glover wrote: > > > I've been looking into the cause of these failures, and it seems to be > > yet another GC bug (or more likely another symptom of the same > > underlying bug). > > > > The problem in this case is in scratchpad_new (in sub.

[perl #19192] JIT fails 3 tests on AMD K5

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by The RT System itself # Please include the string: [perl #19192] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19192 > I can build parrot fine on my FreeBSD box. I can re-run the tests fine with /usr

Re: [perl #19183] languages/perl6/t/compiler.t -- multiple ways to spell "Inf"

2002-12-16 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Also, is the first of these a bug? > > $ ./perl6 -e 'print 3/undef; print "\n"' > Can't call method "tree" on an undefined value at ./perl6 line 342. Yes. The C function isn't fully, well, defined. /s

Re: Curses Life

2002-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: > >> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>There are ways to get around that, and there are some inefficiencies >>>in the implementation there. I think we can work around some of >>>those--I am rather tempted to have invoke

[perl #19191] [PATCH] creation of string_nprintf()

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #19191] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19191 > This patch creates a string_nprintf(), as described in docs/strings.pod. Specifica

Re: [perl #19187] t/src/sprintf errors with 64-bit ints:

2002-12-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:34:34PM +, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using 64-bit long longs as > INTVAL, I get the following test failure in t/src/sprintf. It looks > like something is getting passed a 64-bit integer quantity but only taking > the first 32

Re: [perl #19183] languages/perl6/t/compiler.t -- multiple ways to spell "Inf"

2002-12-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:25:36PM +, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using Sun's supplied > 5.00503, I get the following test failure in > > t/compiler/1# Failed test (t/compiler/1.t at line 306) > # got: '7.00 9.00 4.00 >

[perl #19189] t/pmc/perlhash fails with gcc-2.95.4 or gcc-2.8.1 on SPARC

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19189] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19189 > On a Debian/SPARC system with gcc-2.95.4, and on a Solaris/SPARC system with gcc-2.8.1

[perl #19188] t/pmc/pmc test failure with 64-bit INTVALs

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19188] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19188 > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using 64-bit long longs as INTVAL, I get

[perl #19187] t/src/sprintf errors with 64-bit ints:

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19187] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19187 > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using 64-bit long longs as INTVAL, I get

[perl #19185] jako not perl-5.00503-compatible

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19185] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19185 > Here's what I get running 'make languages' with perl-5.00503: cd jako && make && cd .

[perl #19184] languages/perl6/t/rx/call test error

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19184] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19184 > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using Sun's supplied 5.00503, I get the fo

[perl #19183] languages/perl6/t/compiler.t -- multiple ways to spell "Inf"

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #19183] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19183 > On Solaris 8, with Sun's Workshop Compiler, using Sun's supplied 5.00503, I get the fo

Re: [perl #18832] [PATCH] nci test lib

2002-12-16 Thread Mr. Nobody
--- Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blib/lib/libparrot$(SO) : blib/lib $(O_DIRS) $(O_FILES) > - $(LD) $(LD_SHARED) $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) > $(LD_OUT)blib/lib/libparrot$(SO) $(O_FILES) $(C_LIBS) > + $(LD) $(LD_SHARED) $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) > $(LD_OUT)blib${slash}lib${

Re: [perl #19179] [PATCH] creating string_max_bytes()

2002-12-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:07:36PM +, mcharity @ vendian. org wrote: This question is actually independent of the patch (which looks good) >simply returns the C it is passed; C, on the >other hand, returns three times the value that it is passed because a >UTF8 character may occu

Re: [perl #19163] configure probe for va_list*

2002-12-16 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Steve Fink wrote: > I'm a little confused by the va_list* stuff for sprintf*. At one > point, people were saying that ppc does va_list differently, though > I'm guessing that was a different compiler than gcc. Now, it seems > like everything uses the same mechanism (and it was

[perl #19179] [PATCH] creating string_max_bytes()

2002-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #19179] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19179 > This patch (1) Creates a string_max_bytes() function, as described in docs/st

Re: Curses Life

2002-12-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There are ways to get around that, and there are some inefficiencies in the implementation there. I think we can work around some of those--I am rather tempted to have invoke promise not to alter non-parameter registers or something

Re: Curses Life

2002-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 4:45 PM + 12/5/02, Leon Brocard wrote: >>Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: >> >>> Now to get the hand of the signatures... >> >>Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated. Instead, >>I played with curses. Plea

Re: Scratchpad/lexicals test failures on TD-Camry

2002-12-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover wrote: I've been looking into the cause of these failures, and it seems to be yet another GC bug (or more likely another symptom of the same underlying bug). The problem in this case is in scratchpad_new (in sub.c). This creates a new Scratchpad PMC, and subsequently also creat